or grab lmstudio
For people who really care about open source, this is not.
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Zuiii commented on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules cnbc.com/2024/09/10/apple... · Posted by u/kklisura
If Apple leaves, you only have one choice. Then you’ll know what a monopoly really is.
There used to be a saying, if you can’t beat them, join them.
The EU seems to have modified to read, if you can’t beat them, hammer them with legislation until you can.
If both google and apple pull out, who will be your monopolist? And what makes you think that they won't also get hammered with legislation?
And even if we assumed that this would be the case, maybe suffering under a "real monopoly" is _exactly_ what the EU needs to push them out of their local maxima. I hope they continue to hammer the ever living shit out of every company that abuses its position to exploit people and deny them their rights. Abusing copyright to prevent people from fixing their own property? Screw every single one of them.
I think what we really need is a mandate to open firmware for any hardware thats EoL. You should just have to pay an escalating fee, or at least be liable in a suit for damages when you EoL a product without opening up the hardware.
Fair enough: You don't want to support our stuff? Then let us support it ourselves.
This reminds me of when Sony disabled their officially supported OtherOS support (used to install Linux and other os's dual boot) with an update. Of course without the update, no access to the Sony Store, games that require the latest Sony PS3 stopped working, etc...
And I haven't bought anything from them since. May that company go bankrupt.
Zuiii commented on Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules cnbc.com/2024/09/10/apple... · Posted by u/kklisura
Eventually Apple will pull out of Europe and I’ll be sitting back laughing my ass off.
I hope so too. Maybe if apple and google finally pull out, the EU will be forced to innovate again. I'm sick of only having two shades of poo to pick from.
Zuiii commented on Epic Games Store and Fortnite Arrive on EU iPhones arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mpweiher
Explaining in detail, since there's a lot of misinfo in this subthread.
The new georestricted iOS features, like 3rd-party App Stores, are behind feature flags that only activate in certain regions. There are multiple factors taken into account when determining whether a flag should be activated. They include GPS location, location obtained from nearby cell towers, the issuing country of your SIM card, the region you set in settings, the country that nearby WiFi networks broadcast for regulatory purposes[1], and (indirectly, through the billing address) the issuing country of the credit or debit card that you use in the App Store.
Not all of them have to match, but the threshold is high enough that you're very unlikely to meet it while physically in the US.
Feature flags stay activated for 30 days since last eligibility, so if you're an EU resident and leave for a vacation, you're fine. If you traveled here as an US resident, you (probably) could get these features activated, perhaps needing an european Apple ID and/or SIM, but they would only stay on for 30 days.
> They include GPS location, location obtained from nearby cell towers, the issuing country of your SIM card, the region you set in settings, the country that nearby WiFi networks broadcast for regulatory purposes[1], and (indirectly, through the billing address) the issuing country of the credit or debit card that you use in the App Store.
GDPR applies if your an EU citizen even if _none_ of these is true. I hope the EU emends their markets law so that it grants every EU citizen the right to _easily_ install whatever he or she wants. That would put an end to this nonsense.
Zuiii commented on Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach troyhunt.com/inside-the-3... · Posted by u/bubblehack3r
Where is that line for you? Is occasionally checking for security updates strictly necessary? Is reporting a crash to the devs so they can fix it necessary? What about sending system & usage telemetry so they can prevent future bugs?
For me, it's like GP said: Absolutely no unauthorized network traffic unless strictly required for the purpose of the software (e.g. curl). No security updates, crash reporting, telemetry unless you prompt the user and show the user exactly what will be sent (similar to how syncthing does it).
Anything less is voyeurism.*
* extreme language I know, but it's precisely how I feel about these acts.
Zuiii commented on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/rvz
I don’t like google and I don’t like the way their shitty search is stuck in every hole.
But denying by court a company a right to honestly pay to another company for distribution of their services has much worse long term consequences and is wrong.
You don't get to pay other companies to keep out your competitors when you're as big as Google. It's as simple as that.
Zuiii commented on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/rvz
> Mozilla is effectively being subsidized by Google for the sake of an illusion of browser competitions. If the remedy enforces "a reasonable level of bid" for these kinds of auctions, Mozilla may go bankrupt within 5 years. I hope the court won't include Mozilla in scope since it doesn't really make a dent on the market dominance.
Maybe the death of Mozilla, the family of corporate entities, could breathe new life into Firefox, the open source browser. They haven't exactly been great stewards for the last few years. I'm not exactly sure how those vast amounts of money from Google have translated into much tangible progress for the browser.
This. Mozilla is a giant dead tree in the middle of the forest depriving any saplings from the sunlight needed for them to take its place. If the corporation can't exist without Google funding, then it's effectively a department of Google and should be killed off so that other _independent_ orgs take its place.